Pierre Véron (lawyer)

After his call to the Bar in 1969, Véron founded, in 1971, the business law firm Lamy, Véron, Ribeyre & Associés in Lyon, France. Véron joined the Paris Bar in 1996. In 2001, he established Véron & Associés in Paris and Lyon, a law firm devoted exclusively to the practice of patent litigation. Véron’s experience in cases involving large French and international entities led him to be the first to appear before a French court to plead cases relating to a European patent (1990), a nanotechnology patent (2003) and the infringement of a molecular biology patent (2007). Since 2007, Véron has served as an expert with the European Commission for projects involving the European Union patent court. In 2010, he was featured as the Lawyer of the Year for France in the American publication Best Lawyers, in the Practice Area of Intellectual Property Litigation, cementing his reputation as an authority in this field. Since 2006 he has been featured as one of the most highly regarded patent lawyers in the world in the Who's Who Legal ranking.

• President of the FNUJA (Fédération Nationale des Unions de Jeunes Avocats, translation: National Federation of Young Lawyers’ Unions) 1977–1978
• Member of the Council of the Ordre des Avocats (translation: the Order of Lawyers) (Lyon, France) 1975–1978
• Member of the CCBE (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe) 1979–1982
• President of the AAPI (Association des Avocats de Propriété Industrielle, translation: Association of Industrial Property Lawyers) 1998–2002
• Founder and president of EPLAW (European Patent Lawyers Association) 2001–2004

• Saisie-contrefaçon (direction), Dalloz Référence, 2nd édition 2005 (ISBN 978-2-247-05245-5), 3rd édition forthcoming.
• Concise International and European Intellectual Property Law (direction, in collaboration with Thomas Cottier), Kluwer Law International, 2nd édition 2011 (ISBN 978-9-041-13420-2).